Re: [PATCH 00/18] Flickr's personal source (grilo plugins part)

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:52:07 +0200, "Juan A. Suarez Romero"
<jasuarez igalia com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:43 +0200, Xabier Rodriguez Calvar wrote:
>> I completely agree with Juan about it being completely out of Grilo's
>> scope so apps could get the token the way they want. But I also think
>> it
>> is a good idea to provide a way either in flickr plugin or in a
>> separate
>> library. For me, having it in the library would only mean that the
>> plugin .so would also contain the helper functions which I don't
>> consider weird. What we'd need is providing access to the .h files and
>> maybe creating a separate grilo-plugins-dev package to include them,
>> but
>> I don't really care about where those two functions are included. 
> 
> 
> IMHO, this option is still weird :/
> 
> 
> You're mixing in the same library functions that have some to do with
> Grilo, with functions out of scope of Grilo (remember they are just
> helper functions).
> 
> But what is still more weird, is that the resulting .so would be, on one
> hand, dynamically linked to access the helper functions, and at the same
> time, it is would be loaded dynamically in order to load the plugin.
> 
> And that is very weird, because it is supposed you can move your plugin
> libraries from one place to another without needing to recompile your
> program, just changing your envvar.

Exactly.

Iago